A34-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Fobruary 17,1990
Kutztown’s Vo-Ag Benefits
(Continuad froiD Paga A 32)
“I question how a science teach
er could teach a program without a
thorough unders landing of agricul
ture. Agriculture teachers could
serve al a reference for <othcr)
teachers,” Sit^.said.
Dairy farmer; Young Farmer,
and Kutztown High School gradu
ate Ken Sanner questioned
whether sending students to other
ag programs, or to vocational
school, was more cost effective
than the home program.
“We have to spread the cost of
this program over all 67 students
that are being served,” Sanner said,
“not just those 22 that are majoring
in it. After all, I have to count the
costs of the heifers and dry cows
on my farm, not just the cows in
milk.”
Sanner added that the principal,
who is an ex officio member of the
ag advisory council, has never
attended a meeting.
Young Farmers President
Robert Tercha reported that there
are 52 adults involved in that
program.
“We have a large number of
adults and a number of students
that are asking for nothing more
than an education in the nation’s
number one industry; the industry
that feeds the world,” Tercha said.
Don McNutt, an agriculture
teacher from Conrad Weiser High
School; Carl Rabenold, a parent;
Jeaimine Seidel, Kutztown FFA
president; and Larry Shrawder, a
Kutztown High School graduate
and former FFA statepresident; all
said they felt that die Kutztown vo
ag program needs more visibility.
“Junior high students haye a
window on music and art They
should be exposed to agriculture,”
McNutt said.
Reinert said the.program would
benefit if junior high -students
knew more about what is available
through the agriculture
department
“We have 15 minutes to tell
junior high students what is in the
program, before they make then
selection for high school,” Reinert
said. “We also have 10 minutes to
speak to parents during a night
meeting. A junior high program is
available and meets once every six
days. The problem is that it meets
during club period, and if a student
is involved in any other activity
including band or chorus they
can’t attend.
“We also run a pumpkin grow
ing contest for fourth, fifth and
sixth grade students,” Reinert con
tinued, “and we do the Food for
America program for the third
graders.”
Carl Rabenold said that the, dis
trict’s guidance department was
making it difficult for students to
get into the program.
“My son Todd was told to forget
the the agriculture program,
because he was a college prep stu
dent,” Rabenold said.
Shrawder said that when he was
at Kutztown school he had a simi
lar problem getting into ag classes,
but was gladhe insisted on an agri
cultural education. „ ,
“I was in everything the school
had to offer, and I rate FFA as
being the thing that bcnefittedme
most after graduation,!’ Shrawder
said.
Shrawder also pointed out .that
Kutztown is one of the state’s pre
mier FFA chapters.
“We have had state presidents,
state officers, gold medal national
teams, and many state winners,” he
> said.
BUI Hughes, chairman of the
Berks County Chamber of Com
merce Ag Committee, said that the
school district should be spending
more money on agricultural educ
tion, not less.
“Increase funding for this prog-
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